Sync feature/string-templates branch with master

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commit 1772f4345bab48b0cdc713b8e0fad0b322ca6ecb (HEAD -> supun/string-templates, upstream/supun/string-templates, feature/string-templates)
Merge: 3208a5d3d 0bb1b6964
Author: Supun Setunga <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 18 09:51:20 2024 -0700

    Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/onflow/cadence into feature/string-templates

diff --git a/ast/string_template_test.go b/ast/string_template_test.go
index c6167aaff..ebfc9e422 100644
--- a/ast/string_template_test.go
+++ b/ast/string_template_test.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
        "testing"
 
        "github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+
        "github.com/turbolent/prettier"
 )
 
diff --git a/sema/check_string_template_expression.go b/sema/check_string_template_expression.go
index 6cbd8d80e..44aa746d0 100644
--- a/sema/check_string_template_expression.go
+++ b/sema/check_string_template_expression.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 package sema
 
-import "github.com/onflow/cadence/runtime/ast"
+import "github.com/onflow/cadence/ast"
 
 // All number types, addresses, path types, bool, strings and characters are supported in string template
 func isValidStringTemplateValue(valueType Type) bool {

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